{"id":15703,"date":"2019-11-07T06:17:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaticano.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:37:20","slug":"the-abbey-of-santa-maria-di-chiaravalle-di-fiastra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaticano.com\/en\/the-abbey-of-santa-maria-di-chiaravalle-di-fiastra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abbey of Santa Maria di Chiaravalle di Fiastra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uno dei monasteri meglio conservati in Italia \u00e8 <strong>l\u2019Abbazia di Santa Maria di Chiaravalle di\nFiastra<\/strong>. Siamo nelle <strong>Marche<\/strong> un\nterritorio ricco di bellezze naturali ed architettoniche, <strong>nominata dalla guida<\/strong> australiana <strong>Lonely Planet<\/strong> come uno dei <strong>luoghi<\/strong>\n<strong>speciali<\/strong> da visitare assolutamente\nnel 2020.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>L\u2019Abbazia di Santa\nMaria di Chiaravalle di Fiastra <\/strong>si trova nel territorio fraTolentino e\nUrbisaglia, nella bassa Valle del Fiastrone. In questo luogo molto particolare\ne incantevole, &nbsp;nella valle del fiume\nChienti, nel 971 sorgeva una piccola chiesa che presenta uno &nbsp;stile tipico del passaggio dal romanico al\ngotico, rispecchiando in pieno l&#8217;influsso cistercense di sapore lombardo.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nel 1142, 150 anni dopo, il duca di Spoleto fece dono di\nquesto territorio ai <strong>monaci Cistercensi\ndi Milano<\/strong> per poter cominciare a fondare l\u2019Abbazia.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Il materiale utilizzato per costruire l\u2019<strong>Abbazia<\/strong> fu prelevato dall\u2019antica citt\u00e0 romana di <strong>Urbs Salvia <\/strong>che era stata distrutta dai\nVisigoti.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gli scavi di questa citt\u00e0, ancora visibili, sono uno dei\npatrimoni nascosti della regione Marche.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I <strong>monaci impegnati nella costruzione dell\u2019Abbazia<\/strong> si dedicarono anche alla bonifica della zona che a quel tempo era un malsano acquitrino.&nbsp; L\u2019 Abbazia visse un periodo di declino nel XV secolo, causato da una serie a catena di eventi devastanti quali il saccheggio della Societ\u00e0 di S. Giorgio di Giovanni Acuto del 1381, ed il disastro del 1422 per mano di Braccio da Montone e delle sue truppe, che fece crollare la copertura a volte della chiesa.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In seguito alla <strong>morte\ndel Duca Sigismondo Giustiniani-Bandini<\/strong> nel 1918 l&#8217;abbazia e tutto al suo\ninterno pass\u00f2 in eredit\u00e0 alla <strong>Fondazione\nGiustiniani-Bandini<\/strong>, e nel 1984, la Regione Marche, istitu\u00ec la <strong>Riserva naturale dell&#8217;Abbazia di Fiastra<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I Monaci Cistercensi ritornarono all&#8217;Abbazia di Chiaravalle\ndi Fiastra, sempre dall&#8217;Abbazia di Chiaravalle di Milano, nel marzo 1985. Oggi\nla comunit\u00e0 cistercense si&nbsp; occupa dell&#8217;antico\nmonastero vivendo, come da usanza, &nbsp;in\nosservanza della Regola di San Benedetto. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbey of Santa Maria di Chiaravalle di Fiastra, one of the best-preserved monasteries in Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4467,1144,175],"tags":[4521,4522,4524,4523,4525],"class_list":["post-15703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-sanctuaries","category-approfondimenti-en-2","category-uncategorized","tag-abbey-of-santa-maria-di-chiaravalle-di-fiastra","tag-australian-guide","tag-cistercian-monks","tag-lonely-planet","tag-urbs-salvia"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Abbey of Santa Maria di Chiaravalle di Fiastra - 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